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A41
world
May 10, 2015 www.guardian.co.tt Sunday Guardian
BOGOTA---Colombia s
president Juan Manuel
Santos announced yes-
terday he is halting use
of a herbicide that has
been a key part of US-
financed efforts to wipe
out cocaine crops, say-
ing the country will
seek other ways to
destroy coca plants.
Santos said he was
taking the move follow-
ing a Health Ministry
recommendation based
on a World Health
Organization decision to
classify glyphosate as a
carcinogen.
Santos, speaking at an
event in the capital
Bogota, said, defense
and health officials
should agree on a tran-
sition period, during
which "spraying of
glyphosate has to be
replaced with other
mechanisms, for exam-
ple, intensifying manual
eradication" of coca
plants.
The US ambassador
to Colombia, Kevin
Whitaker, said a deci-
sion on whether to use
the chemical is a deci-
sion for Colombia and
the US government
respects it.
More than four mil-
lion acres of land in
Colombia have been
sprayed with the pop-
ular weed killer over the
past two decades to kill
the plants whose leaves
produce cocaine. The
spraying programme is
partly carried out by US
contractors.
The decision to end
fumigation programme
could have a side effect
of somewhat easing
ongoing peace talks with
the country s main rebel
group, the Revolution-
ary Armed Forces of
Colombia, which has
demanded an end to the
spraying as part of any
deal.
The two sides already
had agreed that aerial
eradication would be used
only as a last resort. (AP)
Colombia suspending use of anti-coca herbicide